PRONA: an R-package for Patient Reported Outcomes Network Analysis.

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Summary

Network analysis (NA) has recently emerged as a new paradigm by which to model the symptom patterns of patients with complex illnesses such as cancer. NA uses graph theory-based methods to capture the interplay between symptoms and identify which symptoms may be most impactful to patient quality of life and are therefore most critical to treat/prevent. Despite NA's increasing popularity in research settings, its clinical applicability is hindered by the lack of a unified platform that consolidates all the software tools needed to perform NA, and by the lack of methods for capturing heterogeneity across patient cohorts. Addressing these limitations, we present PRONA, an R-package for Patient Reported Outcomes Network Analysis. PRONA not only consolidates previous NA tools in

SUBMITTER: Bergsneider BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11601158 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature